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Marginal Tax rate

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  • This topic has 6 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 11 years ago by aishaasad.
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  • October 21, 2013 at 6:27 pm #143320
    frazer123
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    am struggling to understand how the effective corparation tax rate is 25%, when dealing with marginal companies.

    November 18, 2013 at 7:18 pm #146657
    aimanaljafri
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    25% is just a shortcut calculation. (i can’t remember how they work it out)
    its the same thing with 24%- marginal relief.

    November 20, 2013 at 1:22 am #146899
    Needs to pass
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    when dealing with marginal rate, tax up to the lower limit at 20% then anything remaining above the lower limit tax at 25% this only applies when the main rate of tax is 24%

    November 23, 2013 at 1:12 pm #147499
    Boyd
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    I agree this makes no sense to me. When deciding on whether to relieve a loss the rules are reduce at highest rate which in the BPP book states relief at marginal rate first but how is this 25%? If anyone could explain I would be grateful!

    November 28, 2013 at 5:19 pm #148340
    aishaasad
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    HI,
    suppose
    taxable total profit /augmented profit =300000
    so a company will be a small
    300000*20%
    CT liabilty=60000

    if TTP/ AP = 310,000
    so a company will be medium
    310,000*24%= 74,400
    less; 1/100 ( 1500,000-310,000)= 11,900
    ct liabilty=62500
    thus change in liabilty=2500
    change in profit = 10,000
    change in terms of percentage = 2500/10,000 ) *100=25%

    ALTERNATIVE APPROACH : ( should not be used to calculate ct liability for a medium company its just a cross check for my above mentioned calculations)

    thus for medium company taking the profit as per above example i.e 310,000
    300,000 *20% = 60,000 ( applying a small company rate )
    10,000*25%=2500
    so total = 62500
    but do not use the alternative approach for calculating ct liabilty for medium company in exam!!!!!!!!!
    USE THE PROPER METHOD 🙂
    if u r confused leave it as it is not important at all………………and all what u should know is that the marginal rate is 25%
    hope it helps
    KIND REGARDS

    December 2, 2013 at 5:50 pm #149262
    dannyw1984
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    what happened to the “N/A” part of the marginal relief formula in your example?

    i thought it was – 1/100 x (U-A) x N/A
    you have only used 1/100 x (U-A)

    Thanks.

    December 3, 2013 at 12:36 am #149349
    aishaasad
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    actually i assumed both taxable total profit and augmented profit to be the same as i did not take FII …so i forgot to put that u are right just put 310,000 in numerator and denominator thanks…
    best of luck

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